As you might expect, there's a high correlation. People in the gap
aren't connected, so they have less access to computers, use the 'Net
less, and participate in open source projects less. There are some
exceptions--like Scandinavia on one side and Columbia and Turkey on
the other.

David makes this comment:

Non-Integrated Gap countries with the most pledges are Iran, Turkey, Venezuela, Peru, and Indonesia -- interesting list. Seems to suggest that many of the countries the US tries to isolate are actually the most connected.

I too find this ironic. I think that the Bush administration has
made a huge mistake in not pushing these countries to integrate more
fully. Forget their governments, their citizens want to be connected
and once they are, the policies of their governments will follow them
into the functioning core. They have to.

As Tom
points out, terrorism is "what's left" after the cold war and I
see it as a reaction to connectivity. Terrorists, while exploiting
the connectivity of the 'Net, would deny that connectivity to people
because it leads them away from the fundamentalist societies that the
terrorists promote.

David's analysis is just one more data point in the argument that
some of the world's seemingly most dangerous countries have citizens
who are ready to connect. The world (i.e. functioning core) needs to
take advantage of that.